FFA briefs

Tuesday

Mar 17, 2009 at 4:00 AM

E. HOLMES DISTRICT -- Eric M. Shaver, DVM, of the East Holmes Veterinary Clinic in Berlin, recently made a monetary donation to the Hiland FFA Chapter. The donation was made possible by a Pfizer Health program. For eligible purchases of Pfizer Animal Health cattle vaccines, a donation of 3 percent was made on behalf of the East Holmes Veterinary Clinic to the Hiland FFA Chapter. Chapter Adviser Mandy Bisesi said the students are fortunate to live in a community that is willing to help the FFA. The donation will help students with the cost of FFA summer camp, the Made for Excellence conference and state FFA convention.GREEN DISTRICT -- Wayne County Schools Career Center ag mechanics/power technologies students won last week's FFA District 3 agricultural and industrial diagnostics contest held at the Career Center.Other participating teams were from Ashtabula County JVS in Jefferson, Mahoning County Career & Technical Center in Canfield and Trumbull Career & Technical Center in Warren. Wayne County's team of Alex and Nick Flinn, both of Northwestern, took top honors with a score of 224. Another Career Center team of Sebastian Jackson of Northwestern and Corey Marty of Norwayne had a score of 212 points, but was not in the official contest.Second place went to Ashtabula County, with a score of 197, third to Mahoning County with 182, and fourth to Trumbull County with 148.The students had 20 minutes to fix problems at five stations. They also took a written test about agricultural mechanics.Judges were Garrett Ramsier, head judge; Jon Wellert of Wellert AC Parts, Jon Bauman of Lowe & Young, Terry Wood of Sterling Farm Equipment, Sam Gerber of Maibach's Tractor and Zac Casey of Shearer Equipment. Ramsier, Wellert, Bauman, Wood and Casey are all Wayne County Schools Career Center alumni.NORTHWESTERN DISTRICT -- Members recently traveled to Mount Gilead High School to judge at a Career Development Event, competing in general livestock, poultry and horse. General livestock judgers and their individual places were Kelsey Bowers, 35th, Jessica Wellert, 62nd and Tori Campbell, 86th. Poultry judgers were Cera Chio, 17th and Katryna Oulsey, 32nd. Horse judgers were Lisa Zavesky, 9th, Rachael Gortner, 13th, Sabrina Johnson, 27th, Sara McWilliams, 40th, Chris Thomas, 54th, Crystal Takacs, 63rd, Tessa Hershey, 95th, Marla Walton, 113, Sarhra Flinn, 122nd, Stacy Kingsbury, 124th and Amber Franks, 125th.The teams will be busy traveling and judging each Saturday until the state contest on March 28.

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